Scientific Program Timetable

Wednesday, September 3, 2025

8:30-9:15 Registration

9:15-9:30 QUATIC 2025 Reception

9:30-10:30 SEDES / Session 1  

SEDES

Session Chair: António Rito Silva 

• Modular Cooperative Platform for Firmware Development, Bernardino Neves

• EFAIR: An Explainable and Federated AI Framework for Performance Evaluation in ERP-Integrated HCM, Mahmoud Yousef and André Vasconcelos

Session 1. Smart Systems and Sustainability

Session Chair: Fernando Brito e Abreu 

• The Energy Consumption of the Object Pool Pattern in C#: A Case Study, Khatereh Sabri, Déaglán Connolly Bree and Mel Ó Cinnéide (GSC)

• Towards an Architectural Perspective for Sustainability: Bundle the Needs from Industry, Markus Funke and Patricia Lago (GSC)

10:30-11:00 Coffee break

11:00-12:00 SEDES / Session 1. Smart Systems and Sustainability    

SEDES

Session Chair:  António Rito Silva 

• LLM-Guided Metamorphic Testing: A QA-Taxonomy Driven Approach to Automated Test-Case Generation, Khadija Javed

Session 1. Smart Systems and Sustainability 

Session Chair: Fernando Brito e Abreu 

• AI-Driven eGuide Systems for Smart Healthcare Navigation and Resource Optimization, Yasir Mohamed, Akbar Khanan and Mohamed Bashir (QAI)

• Narrating Quality: Participatory Elicitation of Non-Functional Requirements with LEGO® and Design Thinking, Roxana Portugal (RE)

• Architecting Cyber Digital Twins for Attack Detection: An Urban Mobility Case Study, Alessandra Somma, Alessandra De Benedictis and Fabio Davide (SP)

12:00-12:50 Doctoral Symposium (SEDES) / Keynote

Generative Artificial Intelligence In Research: Challenges and Opportunities, António Lopes

13:00-14:00 Lunch

14:00-14:30 Main Conference Opening

QUATIC'25 Opening by the program and organizing chairs

14:30-15:30 Keynote  

Driving Product Innovation Using Responsible AI, Paulo Dimas

15:30-16:00 Coffee break

16:00-18:00 Session 2. Requirements Engineering (RE)

  Session Chair: Stamatia Bibi

• Ambiguous Word Dictionary for Requirements Documents, Risa Ishii, Saya Imamura, Atsushi Sawada and Motoshi Saeki (RE)

• Designing ChatGPT Prompts for Impact Analysis in Requirements Documents, Rinka Asada and Motoshi Saeki (RE)

• Requirements Engineering for Digital Twins: a Cross-Domain Systematic Literature Review, Aurora Macías, Elena Navarro, Carlos E. Cuesta and Uwe Zdun (RE)

• A feasibility study on the automated generation of acceptance criteria for user stories using LLMs, João Pedro Silva Mambrini Ruiz and Leo Natan Paschoal (RE)

• Using Large Language Models and Few-Shot Learning to Classify Natural Language Requirements: An Experimental Study, Panagiota Chatzipetrou, Fredrik Karlsson, Tanja Elina Havstorm and Shang Gao (RE)

• Can Engineered GenAI Prompts Help Students Write Better Software Requirements?, Markus Feneberger, Susanne Palmetshofer and Reinhold Plösch (RE)

Session 3. Process Improvement (EM)

Session Chair: Ricardo Machado

• Labor Market Supply Through Open-Source Projects, Nikolaos Nikolaidis, Panagiotis Machairas, Apostolos Ampatzoglou, Alexander Chatzigeorgiou and Nikolaos Mittas (EM)

• Improving Locators Quality for E2E Testing through Gamification with TestQuest, Diego Clerissi, Dario Olianas, Maurizio Leotta and Filippo Ricca (EM)

• Show Your Title! A Scoping Review on Verbalization in Software Engineering with LLM-Assisted Screening, Gergő Balogh, Dávid Kószó, Homayoun Safarpour Motealegh Mahalegi, László Tóth, Bence Szakács and Áron Búcsú (HESA)

• Empowering LLMs for Process Mining: The Role of Retrieval-Augmented Generation, Marta Jesus, João Caldeira and Diogo Reis (PIA)

• Inductive Logic Programming for Pose Estimation Data Acquisition, Aboubaker Seddiq Benterki, Gert Kanter and Juri Vain (QAI)

18:30-20:30 Welcome Event - NovaIMS

Thursday, September 4, 2025

8:30-9:00 Registration

9:00-10:30 Session 4. Software Testing & Test Automation with AI

  Session Chair: Maurizio Leotta

• Mock Once, Test Twice: Reusing Mocks for Integration Testing in Microservice Architectures, Morena Barboni, Filippo Lampa, Yuri Monti, Andrea Polini and Federico Valeri (VVT)

• Generating test code for web applications using LLM, Rikuto Ito and Shingo Takada (VVT)

• A Rule-based Approach for the Generation of Efficient Workloads in Load Testing, Idrees Ahmad, Vittorio Cortellessa, Daniele Di Pompeo and Michele Tucci (VVT)

• An Analysis of the Test Repair Capability of Large Language Models in Android GUI Testing, Alessandro Fedriga, Tommaso Fulcini, Riccardo Coppola, Domenico Amalfitano, Damiano Distante and Filippo Ricca (VVT)

• AdapTSoS: Adaptive Testing of Systems of Systems, Samira Silva, Francesca Lonetti and Antonia Bertolino (VVT)

10:30-11:00 Coffee break

11:00-13:00 Session 5. Security and Threat Detection

  Session Chair: TBA

• Intelligent DNS Threat Detection: Integrating RPZ, DGA Detection, and AI classification in a Bind9 server, R. Guy Edouard Bouda, Abdoulaye Sere and Frederic Ouedraogo (QAI)

• On the Edge of Security: Threat-Driven Pentest of KubeEdge with ESSecA, Felice Moretta, Daniele Granata and Massimiliano Rak (SP)

• Quality evaluation of a Cyber Threat Intelligence Sharing Platform for critical infrastructures, Valeria Valdés Ríos, Fatiha Zaïdi and Ana Rosa Cavalli (SP)

• Approach for improving automatic pothole detection, Dekpeltakié Augustin Metouale Somda, José Arthur Ouedraogo, Souleymane Kone and Abdoulaye Sere (SP)

• On the capacity of Technical Debt to indicate security issues in open-source software products, George David Apostolidis, Miltiadis Siavvas, Ilias Kalouptsoglou, Dimitrios Tsoukalas, Alexander Chatzigeorgiou, Apostolos Ampatzoglou, Dionysios Kehagias and Dimitrios Tzovaras (SP)

• A Systematic Cross-Analysis of Privacy Risks in mHealth Android Applications in Vietnam, Bao-Long Ho, Tran-Tran Trinh, Minh-Triet Tran and Anh-Duy Tran (SP)

Session 6. Human-Centric & Ethical Aspects of Software & Systems

  Session Chair: Panagiota Chatzipetrou

• Ensuring Quality of EEG Data Sharing  for the Development of Human-Centered  Machine Learning and  Artificial Intelligence Systems, Aimilia Ntetska, Andreas Miltiadous, Markos G. Tsipouras, Pantelis Angelidis, Nikolaos Giannakeas, Alexandros T. Tzallas and Katerina D. Tzimourta (HESA)

• SkillMORTEX: An Innovation Ecosystem for Monitoring Digital Skill Dynamics Using Stack Overflow Data, Dimitrios Christos Kavargyris, Konstantinos Georgiou, Nikolaos Makris, Nikolaos Mittas and Lefteris Angelis (HESA)

• Elusive Quality: Unpacking Ambiguity in Public ICT Tender Requirements, Aapo Koski, Reetta Kukkonen and Tommi Mikkonen (HESA)

• An agent design pattern catalogue for the entanglement of Digital Twins, Elena Pretel, Elena Navarro, Víctor López-Jaquero, José J González-García and Schahram Dustdar (CCSA)

• Identifying Ethical Factors, Issues and Solutions in Online Software Experimentation, Milene Lopes and Breno de França (HESA)

• Predicting Information Security Perception in Digital Workplaces in Brazil: A Human-Centric Approach Using PLS-SEM and PLS-Predict, Ari Mariano, Vitória Rosek and Maíra Rocha Santos (SP)

13:00-14:00 Lunch

14:00-15:00 Keynote

The Triumph of the New Jersey Style: How Architectural Elegance, Components, and Reuse Shaped the Evolution of Unix, Diomidis Spinellis

15:00-15:30 Journal First

• Software Quality Assurance as a Service: Encompassing the quality assessment of software and services, Samuel Bernardo , Pablo Orviz , Mario David , Jorge Gomes , David Arce , Diana Naranjo , Ignacio Blanquer , Isabel Campos, Germán Moltó, Joao Pina 

15:30-16:00 Coffee break

16:00-17:30 Session 7. Large Language Models in Software Engineering

  Session Chair: Katerina Tzimourta

• Sentiment Analysis Using Large Language Models: A Systematic Mapping Study in Software Engineering, Glauco Carneiro, Rafael Goto, José Santos, Bruna Silva, Manoel Neto and Fernando Brito e Abreu (EM)

• Quality of Machine Translation for Human Phenotype Ontology terms into Portuguese, Julio Souza, Letícia Fontanelli, Victor Cassão, Diego Yamada, Filipe Andrade Bernardi, Goreti Marreiros, Alberto Freitas and Domingos Alves (QAI)

• What Prompted That? A Structured Approach to Prompt Inversion, Maria Di Gisi, Giuseppe Fenza and Mariacristina Gallo (QAI)

• Fine-Tuning LLMs for Secure Prompt-to-API Code Generation in Domain-Specific Environments, Norbert Sándor Szolnoki and Gábor Antal (QAI)

• Cirrus++: Scalable 2D Annotations for Multi-Modal AD Research, Md Abu Ahammed Babu, Sushant Kumar Pandey, Darko Durisic, Andras Balint and Miroslaw Staron (QAI)

• Beyond Benchmarks: A Multivocal Literature Review of User-Centered Quality Assessment for Generative AI-enabled Software Products, Buse Esirik and Ebru Gökalp (QAI)

18:30-23:00 Conference Dinner - Charkoal Restaurant - Marina de Oeiras

Bus departs from NovaIMS at 18:30

Friday, September 5, 2025

8:30-9:00 Registration

9:00-10:30 Session 8. Measurement, Metrics and Productivity

  Session Chair: Stamatia Bibi

• Exploring the Quality Factors of the IT Service Desk: A Case Study, Marko Jäntti (EM)

• Leveraging Integrated IT Metrics: Real-World Application and Validation of Codee in Enterprise Environment, István Kolláth, Gábor Antal, Gergő Szathmári, András Fischer, Gabriella Kakuja-Tóth and Péter Hegedűs (PIA)

• A Replicated Study of DL-based Software Size and Effort Prediction with ML Methods, Sousuke Amasaki, Hirohisa Aman and Tomoyuki Yokogawa (PIA)

• Maintainability Definition, Scoping, and Measurement for Machine Learning Systems, Khan Mohammad Habibullah, Juan Garcia Diaz, Gregory Gay and Jennifer Horkoff (QAI)

• Exploring the Impact of Commit Burstiness on Software Quality, Liviu Marian Berciu, Vasilica Andreea Moldovan and Simona Motogna (VVT)

Session 9. Vulnerability Detection & Code Analysis

  Session Chair:  Ricardo Machado

•  Few-shot learning for security bug report identification, Muhammad Laiq (EM)

• An AUTOSAR-Aligned Architectural Study of Vulnerabilities in Automotive SoC Software, Srijita Basu, Haraldsson Bengt, Miroslaw Staron, Christian Berger, Jennifer Horkoff and Magnus Almgren (SP)

• Decoding Graph Neural Network Decisions for Source Code Vulnerability Detection, Rosmael Zidane Lekeufack Foulefack, Steve Azzolin and Alessandro Marchetto (VVT)

• To be, or not to be expert for a learning-based vulnerability detection method, this is the question, Eddie Veronese, Rosmael Zidane Lekeufack Foulefack and Alessandro Marchetto (VVT)

• Classifying industrial bugs to advance scriptless test oracles, Robin Bouwmeester, Lianne Hufkens, Fernando Pastor Ricos, Beatriz Marín and Tanja E. J. Vos (VVT)

10:30-11:00 Coffee break

11:00-12:00 Panel: LLM in ICT Education

12:00-12:30 Conference Closing